Stuntman!: My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life. A new Book by stuntman Hal Needham. Probably more famous for his collaborations with Burt Reynolds in the 70s and 80s, he also worked often with Duke.
Looks like a great read, but one of the "blurbs" I read had a comment from Hal stating he taught Duke how to throw a movie punch(?!).
Posts from alamo221 in thread „Stuntmen of the Saddle- Neil Summers & others“
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Jim Burke was a great addition to any Duke film and will be missed. A couple of his more notable stuntworks were doubling Duke in most of True Grit, doubling Duke in the climactic gunfight in The Shootist, and doubling Forrest Tucker in the balcony fall (Chuck Roberson doubled Duke) in Chisum.
